Sunday, April 5, 2026

check in april 5th

I've been in a sort of liminal space all day
I decided I would rather sleep 
there was enough weather 
to give me a headache 
SO
I decided I would do qi gong
&
it was more difficult than I thought it would be 

I mean 
I'm not saying it was difficult 
I started with a very 
SIMPLE one

something about the stance
wasn't comfortable 
I kept having to 
stop and touch my toes
stretching out my back, I guess

& the funny thing is that I have been feeling MORE RELAXED 
I have a greater range of motion 
in my neck & shoulders & upper back
than I have memory of when

I'm not sure what was my problem 
I felt stiff & uncoordinated*

*I always want to put hyphens in these

I didn't do a lot of work on the room
physically just one project
BUT 
I walked around the space 
I did some pondering 

I made some postulated beginnings for rules
about what to throw away 
& what to donate
& what to keep 
to try to sell

I made some postulated orders of operations
for going through the things still in the room 
on the FLOOR and the CHAIR

I have this rug I didn't want to put down
after the apartment flooded
that I'm thinking 
WALL
that seems like a lot of work 
I've just about worked myself around to FLOOR 

this rug
I was driving around 
& this shop was going out of business 
so the rug was at least fifty percent off 
& I still had to talk myself 
into it it was SO MUCH MORE than my
COMFORT ZONE 

I'm not sure it's 
CALM though
it's this
KINDA 
burgundy--magenta wool kilim
with I wanna say
orange spikey wheels woven in with 
some white accents

ACTUALLY 
it MIGHT be TOO big for FLOOR

I'm unreasonably tired
for someone who didn't DO that much